The story of a dreamer just drifting along with Charlie and Gumtree...

Monday, 29 October 2012

Shaken and stirred

Bloggie friends!

According to this survey, half of people in the UK will "hide" with a quarter "switching off their lights" to avoid trick or treaters during Halloween night. LOL! Oh dear. I'm very sorry to say that will be me come Wednesday!

Charlie says: I just try and hide from this intruder!

Awwww but please have a great Halloween all of you celebrating it.

Also if you are joining NaNoWriMo (write a novel in 30 days starting 1 Nov, details here) - I wish you all the best!

I won't be blogging come next Monday (Bonfire Night) because.......

I SHALL BE HAVING A DAY OF (James) BOND!! Yes!! I am off to drool over the lovely Daniel Craig in Skyfall! I hope to be shaken AND stirred...

Hehe Gumtree seems to be wondering just what Charlie is up to there. The lights are rarely ever on downstairs so I don't think we need to worry too much about trick or treaters. It's not that we're hiding, it's just that no one goes downstairs.

Yeah... we're not allowed near the front door on Hallowe'en night, either. But after the neighbourhood kids have finished with their tricky treatin' we'll be enjoying some treats outselves! FF or a little of the special stuff in the trays, I do believe... purrs

We have people on our street who do that and it makes me mad. We are at the top of the last street in a neighborhood and if they turn off their darned lights, then very few kids come up the street to our house and WE want to see them!!! Slowly, though, the neighborhood is turning over--older people leaving and younger moving in, so I hope this is changing, too.

For Halloween we always put all our lights on and a sign on the gatepost to say "treat seekers welcome". I love seeing all the local kids in their costumes but we do get through a lot of mini chocolate bars!

Halloween will be very different this year in NYC because of storm damage, but I hope the children get to celebrate it one way or another. I always had such fun on "trick or treat" as a child as i love candy! ;)

Since I moved back to England, I have never had any trick or treaters visit my house. That's a shame. Still, the good news is all the treats I had for the little visitors are mine, I tell you, all mine!

Can you keep this a secret? Yes, I have been asked to take on the role of James Bond in an upcoming movie. Gosh! :)

Mom said she has never cared about Halloween since she was in the single digit age group. She always has her lights off and never encourages Trick or Treaters. She had to when her own three sons were small and insisted on going about but since they are grown, mom said "no."

We had decorations outside but Teri didn't bring the human sized lite up cat in a pumpkin down from the attic cuz of the storm...and then she ran errands til 8pm and missed all the Trick or Treaters...

lol! I thought of doing that this year, because last year was the first year the kids in my street dressed up and went door knocking. I was prepared then but I wasn't prepared this year... but it turns out none came anyway. Maybe they knew... ;)

We didn't celebrate Halloween at all. Well, not yet anyway! We don't do the trick or treat thing on the day of Halloween for some reason so we have time to buy candy on the cheap (it all goes for 1/2 price after the big day) and an outfit for me just in time for Saturday's trick or treating! Yeah!XOXO....Daisy

We celebrate Hallowe'en because I lived in Canada for half my life. I completely understand those that don't 'get it' though and everyone should be able to choose to hide in their homes whenever they wish.

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For my 40th birthday in 2009, I went to a Spanish Tapas bar/club in Tottenham Ct Rd. A stranger mistook me for being 18. Admittedly the place was rather badly lit and dark. Admittedly I was rather chuffed.